Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-07
PURE DRUGS AND mEDrCrEns
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Kary'and ASsnus Drug sIsrs.
rE Prescriptions a Specially.


There are great many kind hearted
| people In the United States who always
| have The President In their personal care.
| They are always looking out Tor his
| health working as well as praying Tor
| its preservation. Ii Is not an especial IN
tesest In the particular man who sits la
| the Presidential chair. II Is not Grover
Cleveland that they think Of any more
than 1t was Chester A. Arthur or James
| A, Garfield. II Is s'the President Of the
United States still the grandest toast In
the world. These good people watch
with eagerness all the newspapers that
comes within their reach 10 catch para
| graphs abeut the Presidents bodily cone
dili0n Has the President rheumatismY
| All the remedies of all the quacks. male
and female. rich and poor. good and bad.
will be showered upon him, while pre-
| cripti0ns of family physicians and In.
| falliable private devices will come lowing
in in smaller streams. AS the ailment, or
reported ailment, grows more serious the
| remedies grow more numerous. Gar
| fields long illness drew between 1000 and
| 5000 suggestions, prescriptions and testi
mOnials aud hundreds of packages OF
medicines, surgical devices and appli-
ance for nursing. 1t was a great occas-
| ion for the volunteer physicians and
nurses. OF course, most cases the idea
they have of the Presidents health; being
based solely on what they see in the
newspapers, is not very accurate. The
great mistake they all seem 10 make
about President Cleveland is TO proceed
on the Theory that he is a fat man. As q
matter of fact, he is not fat, although he
Is stout. His flesh Is remarkably firm.
and his muscles are remarkably strong,
while his bones are large and we'll knit.
| rhe result is that he carries himself with,
more ease, grace and dignity than most
men of half his size. and suffers very lit
| tie Of the convenience over which fat
men as large as he Is are constantly
| groaniag. But people who have not
seen him, hearing that lac is large, con
lude that he is fat. So most of the sug
| gestiDns that have been made publicity
| and privately about the health OF .Presi
dent have been intended TO help him re-
| duce flesh. Exercise has been the great
| prescription for him. " ben DIR. Sewers
told newspaper last year that the PTesi
| dent needed exercise, must take 1t IL he
would avoid Secretary Manning's sad fate,
| his statement received ready credence.
| People all ever the country sent in sugges
| tions and appliances for exercise by the
dozen The President adopted one or
two OF the slmiler ones on genera prin
ciples, and not because of any special need
OF them, As matter of tact, then, as
now, he did not need TO be told that ex
ercisc was good thug for man kept
| so long mt his desk as he Is every day.
tie thought and still thinks walking the
best and most convenient exercise.
man whe has TO n.easufe out bis days as
| he does must think of time always. A
ride takes an hour and half at least;
walk takes but half an hour. To man
whose every moment has its pressing
duty walk is, therefore,, preferable to a
ride. For the present at least, the Presi
dent will not ride. OF course there was
nothing in that story that he was going
to learn To ride at a riding school that Is
about to be opened here. The President
IS rather old to 90 to school. Washing
ton Letter in Phitadelphta Record